5 reasons why you should not be using Yahoo Small Business
Is any one looking for a bullshit/horseshit domain hosting service? Consider Yahoo domain or smallbusiness.yahoo.com.
While listing the 5 reasons why you should not be using Yahoo Small Business I am highlighting some of their shitty business logic as well.
1. Total Confusion: My invoice is raised. I process the payment. The registration for a particular domain is renewed for two years. For some god damned reason the invoice payment fails. I am a Yahoo user with the domain registered with yahoo mail id but yahoo prefers to send the notifications to the alternate email id. Wow.
2. Failed Technology: They cancel my account. My domain keeps working even though the payment fails. Their mails go to an account that I am not checking. I plan to change my hosting and when I look around where is the domain I don’t find it any more. I look up WHOIS and find my account registered with melbourneIT. What the hell is going on and who are these people. I look up the domain on their site and the say “could be a reseller”. I call them and I am shocked to find that Yahoo is their reseller. At least they are pretty smart and professional people and help me out with even Yahoo customer care number for domains.
3. Shitty Customer Care: I call up Yahoo and their shitty system says I have to wait for 20 mins. Imagine calling on ISD and being asked to hold for 20 mins. 3-4 calls like this and my one year Domain registration fee is wasted on customer care. (Thanks to the IP phones we have got here) Finally after getting the account validated after two calls (20 – 24 mins of hold each) I pay and get the account reactivated.
4. Shitty Commitment: My initial requirement was to rename the name servers. After validation they put my domain on pending status saying it might take upto 72 hours for the DNS change. After 4 complete days I am still waiting for the pending status to lift. I don’t know how many days more I will have to wait after I change the NS to my desired location.
5: Shitty Pricing: First year they charge $10 for .com domains. Next year you are supposed to pay $35. Can any one tell me why? I can dare to call myself a techie and I am pissed up with this shit. I wonder what common have to face. Other top domain registration companies like GoDaddy etc charge around the $10 for every renewal.
This review is a totally personal opinion of mine. It is not motivated by any individual or company. I just wish to share my bad experience with the aforementioned company. I know many of you might disagree with me. Feel free to comment.
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Checkout My Room on YooWalk
January 25, 2010 by rooturaj
Filed under Reviews, Social Media
Hey Guys. I just found an amazing place to kill time on web. If you thought Facebook was the ultimate time killer social platform then here is something you must check out. I recommend yoowalk.com for the ultimate social networking freaks.
For some time I have been looking for a change from Facebook. This one comes as a fresh new idea for internet marketing as well as social networking. Yeah I know you are asking me how it is better than Facebook. For all those who have a Facebook page compare yours with my yoowalk room. See below. (if you can’t see the flash loading then click here to see my room)
Walk around. Yeah I mean it. Just walk around.
If you want you can take a nap on my sofa.
Use the speaker to listen to my songs. There are two at the moment. (might take some time to load)
My fishes are really cute. All you non non-vegetarians don’t even think about it.
The bath tub is for babies. No messing in there.
Need I say that if you are there you must add me as your friend?
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Will ISRO’s Bhuvan beat Google Earth
August 29, 2009 by rooturaj
Filed under Reviews, Technology
With the much talked about Bhuvan – Earth Observation visualization tool by Indian Space Research Organization I finally thought I would give a try. I would share with my readers my experience with the tool. My overall opinion is that Bhuvan is the best deep technology public software ever made by an Indian organization.
As with most of the things that belongs to the Govt. of India the website lacks a high degree of professionalism. There is no dedicated site as yet. I had to Google up and finally arrived at http://bhuvan2.nrsc.gov.in . I use Firefox 3.5.2 and after downloading direct X and the plugin that are required for using Bhuvan I registered myself. It was impressive that already 0.23 million users have registered. But non of the ASP links of online Bhuvan software would open on Firefox. It is, I believe, a Firefox issue as I could follow the links on IExplorer. The features as described on the homepage are quite inviting and promise things much better than wikimapia or google earth. So the question arises – Can it out perform these popular Earth Visualization tools?
It does not seem likely that any thing like this could happen soon with the low level errors that are browser related. If you cannot open the application how do can you even comment if its good? Even on IE 7 the application did not load properly the first time. When I searched for a location on the search box on the right it threw back JavaScript errors. I had to reload it a couple of times to load it successfully.
Taluks and Twons Layer - Images from Bhuvan
Once the application starts and you get a hang of the features it is definitely a lot advanced and options packed than its competitors. It does have the material to beat Google and Wikimapia. Only that a higher professional handling is solicited. Once I zoomed in on Mumbai the loading speed decreased gradually.I could not get the details I was expecting. Just before the house level the image tiles did not load. I would like to highlight some features that can beat Google and Wikimapia. You have options to add layers. There are layers for towns, villages, districts, taluks, watersheds and lot more. You can fly around a city of landscape – a feature I liked pretty much. Then there are features like Navigation Map, Time Series, Photos which are very useful and very attractive. I would recommend you take a look for yourself and comment back here.
Here are some snapshots from the software. (Source : bhuvan2.nrsc.gov.in)
Zooming on Nariman Point Mumbai on Bhuvan
Indian Earth Observation Visualization - Image form Bhuvan
Zooming on Mumbai on Bhuvan
Navigation Map Feature - If you are stuck on the real world map
Here are the requirements running Bhuvan software on you browser.
Get directX 9 then download the plugin.
You need to register here before using it.
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New third party display (CPM) ads on Adsense
August 28, 2009 by rooturaj
Filed under Reviews, Travel Guide
Through official Adsense updates, the publishers were today introduced to a new opportunity of generating ad revenue and maximizing ad space utilization. Google is teaming up with internet advertising companies to show display ads through its own network. These ads will compete with Adwords advertisers over the same bidding methodology and content targeting algorithm.
What does the Publisher gain form this?
Well since there are more ads there will be more competition and ultimately the bid price will go up to keep the advertiser in display all the time. That directly converts into higher CPC rates. But we are more concerned about the CPM rates. Since these are display ads, those who have high traffic volume but lesser CTR could benefit form this. CPM or cost per 1000 impressions is the amount you get when your page loads 1000 times with the add appearing on it. Even though there are no clicks you still get the revenue. Big brands who are particularly concerned about a brand image use these ads. But it is not limited to brand promotion only. Image ads are known to deliver higher CTR (click through rates)
When will this be effective?
Google says this won’t be effective immediately. It will be implemented slowly over a period of time. As more third party publishers get verified and added to the ad stream revenue differences will start to show in our accounts.
Currently publishers in Europe and North America will be able to enjoy the benefits while the rest will have to wait for this opportunity.
You might be interested in the following links.(Reference)
requirements for third-party ad serving
http://adsense.blogspot.com/2008/05/introducing-third-party-ads-on-google.html
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BING being SLOW thing
August 8, 2009 by rooturaj
Filed under Reviews, Search Engine Optimization, Technology
With the launch of BING, Microsoft’s new search engine some people have become highly optimistic about it. In particular those who did not manage to get good SERP rankings for their keywords in Google. Now with the merger of Yahoo search and Bing WWW would see bing as the single largest challenger of Google for the place of world’s most popular search engine. Well I don’t see this as an age heralded early. The combined forces of Yahoo and MSN used to control a fourth of Search engine market. Yahoo used to be the second, behind Google. It remains to be seen how well will Bing do. Will the market share rise of the ardent Yahoo followers switch over to Google?
As far as BING goes I do like some features of the SERPs. To stay up to date with the happenings I joined the webmaster’s forum at BING. You would not believe the support they provide out there totally sucks. There are a bunch of Rag Tag web master who, like parrots, recite a line or two for every query you post. The official responses are not very encouraging either. Experts are no where to be spotted. What ever you ask related to indexing, algorithms, delay in caching, geo location errors, ranking etc etc here are some answers you would invariably get.
1. BING is new so it will take some time to index.
2. BING is slow so you have to wait till your site is updated.
3. Submit your site map and URL to web master tools
4.Get more back links if you are not indexed.
I was so pissed up with the BING being SLOW thing that I even posted this back on the forum for the web master and Admins to see : -
What use is a “SLOW Thing” to anyone but the snail. If this continues, then the world would start using BING as a synonym for SLOW. Like this ..
The Traffic was very BING today.
Hurry up mate, you are BINGing down the group.
Let me know your experiences with BING web master tools or forums.
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Quality of Tata Indicom wireless Internet Service
This is to share with the Internet public my recent awful experiences with Tata Indicom wireless Internet service. I have been using the Tata Indicom CDMA USB modem for my on line activities for around 7 months now. I was initially satisfied with the connection as it provided a degree of freedom compared against fixed line connections. I was assured a speed up to 256 kbps by the marketing executive. I paid around 3000 rupees for the connection. Though the speed was not satisfactory I managed with the same as I almost never faced disconnection.
But for the last one month, things are getting worse. Though the modem is constantly green and the dialer software is stays connected the speed of data transfer is so sick that even the Google home page would not open many times. I am now paying 881 rupees every month for this crap. To add to the woes the connections dies out every now and then. As I write this I have reconnected the dialer software 11 times already within a time span of 70 mins. Assuming that you need 2 mins to disconnect and reconnect I have lost 22 mins of 70 mins to disconnection. I have worked hardly 15 properly. You will have some idea of my frustration form the screen shots I am attaching below. I hope this will give you an idea of how good is the quality of Tataindicom wireless service in New Delhi.
My 12th disconnection today.
automatic disconnection
After reconnecting and loging in to Facebook I am stuck again. Screen shot with the Firefox loading and status bar message saying waiting for facebook.com.
stuck with facebook
After waiting in vain for 3 mins or so I try to open google.com in a new tab. The two screen shots will show you dialer softwares status as it tries and tries hard to connect to and load one of the lightest pages on the web.
Cannot Even Load Google
Cannot Even Load Google after 4 mins
